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Aged and Age--Activities - 5

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Norbert Paul and Maggie Heasley were a whirlwind at the weekly square dance at the Kent Senior Center called "Ring N Swing" last Thursday. Every Thursday from 1 to 3 seniors from around the area get together for the dance with a live caller.
Haley

Freeway--Interstate 5 - 2

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--Who Needs a Sign?--
No arrow is necessary at the South 108th Street and Pacific Avenue intersection to point out Mount Rainier. Not in good weather anyway. The early spring, with crystal-like skies, is now in its seventh consecutive rainless day. It affords new opportunities to capture Tacoma's favorite mountain on film, as seen in this framed photograph by News Tribune Staff Photographer Wayne Zimmerman.

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 13

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At its peak, population at the Hanford Site swelled to 51,00, making it one of the largest construction camps in the world. Between 1943 - 45, 130 barracks, 900 temporary buildings and 4,300 trailers were built. Eighty tons of food were served each day in the eight mess halls.
Westinghouse Hanford Company photo

PORT OF TACOMA--PIER 7 (Pier 7) pictures Oct 1960 thru Dec 1978 - 2

From clipping in file: "Pier 7 Extension Project Begins: Manson Construction and Engineering equipment dredging the $3 million extension to Pier 7 appear in this aerial photo taken by News Tribune staff photographer Bob Rudsit. The 900-foot concrete extension will provide a fourth berth for Pier 7, located on the northeast side of Sitcum Waterway between East 11th Street and Commencement Bay. The port's giant alumina storage domes and the tallow shipping tank farm, the latter at the left, dominate the aerial scene. Floating drydock for Aerojet's surface-effect test craft is at right.
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"Port of Tacoma - Pier 7"
"Pier 7 extension"
Photograph by Bob Rudsit

Aged and Age--Activities - 6

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Eighty-seven-year-old Rudy Anderson has earned the privelege of sacking out for a snooze in the middle of the Old Fashioned Senior Picnic held at Five Mile Lake County Park Thursday. He had just finished a lunch of barbecued hamburger and the Navy Band of Seattle had begun to play. Hundreds of seniors from around the area attended and activities included games and drawings as well.
Haley

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 14

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White Bluffs Then
An unidentified man stands before a gas station in White Bluffs, Washington in this early undated photo. Along with Hanford, White Bluffs was purchased and obliterated by the federal government in 1943 to make room for the Manhattan Projects' plutonium plants to develop the atomic bomb. The desert-line terrain was considered virtually worthless by project planners.

Tacoma--Historical Buildings and Sites - 1

Norton Memorial. Erected by a grateful city, the Norton Memorial stands on a grassy plot at St. Helens and Tacoma Avenue and 1st St. South. A likeness of Percy Dunbar Norton, public servant and pioneer businessman, is engraved upon the stone. A small drinking fountain (later removed prior to WWII when scrap metal was essential for national defense) is attached. Percy Norton, related by marriage to two of the founders of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., served as manager of the firm as well as Tacoma City Council president at the time of his death, age 44, in April of 1900. Flags were flown at half mast at City Hall, colors lowered on mastheads of vessels loading at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. dock, as well as the emblem on the lumber company offices' flagpole. His desk at council chambers would be draped in mourning for 30 days. The Tacoma Ledger in its April 14, 1900, tribute to Mr. Norton praised his "indomitable pluck, courage, and ability" in the building up of Tacoma and his "business sagacity and management" on the city council in enabling the city to "weather the hard times with its credit untouched." The Norton Memorial still partially remains at the same site, now called the Norton Memorial Park at 99 Tacoma Avenue South. (Tacoma Ledger, April 14, 1900, p. 1-article on Mr. Norton)


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Tacoma--Historical Buildings and Sites

Aged and Age--Activities - 7

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--Old Meets New--
The older generation tackles the technology of the new as 66-year-old Virginia Thorington tries her hand at working a video camera. Thorington is part of a group of Walla Walla, WA. area senior citizens who are taking video classes with the hope of learning how to produce their own television show.
Jeff Horner/Photo

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 15

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Demolished Town
The empty shell of the old Hanford High School is the largest remaining sign of the farm town of Hanford, WA., which was demolished along with White Bluffs to make way for nuclear weapons plants near the Columbia River fifty years ago March 6th. Hanford's name lives on as the moniker of the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. Wartime urgency doomed the towns.
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